688 biscuit base recipes

Slow cooker apple cake layers a biscuit-style base under sliced tart apples, cinnamon-sugar dust, and apricot jam. A vented crockpot lid keeps the cake from steaming dense.

Vegan-friendly tofu vegetable pot pie with zucchini, peppers, Swiss chard, corn, peas, and carrots under a golden biscuit crust. Hearty and plant-based.

Chocolate shortcakes made with cocoa powder, cold butter, and buttermilk. A biscuit-style base for strawberry shortcake with chocolate, cream, and a chocolate drizzle.

Pennsylvania Dutch peach cake from Lebanon County with fresh peach halves baked into a tender biscuit-style base, dusted with cinnamon sugar. A summer harvest classic.

Old-fashioned potato sourdough starter built on potato water, flour, sugar, and a pinch of yeast. The starches feed wild and added yeasts together for a tangy, vigorous base for breads, pancakes, and biscuits.

Creamy curried ham and turkey in a roux-based sauce served over toast or biscuits. Freezer-friendly comfort food that reheats beautifully from frozen in one hour.

Walnut fudge cookies (British-style biscuit fingers): a buttery shortbread base studded with walnuts and topped with a quick brown sugar fudge. Tea-time treat that slices clean.

French hazelnut meringue biscuit with finely ground filberts folded into whipped egg whites. Baked hot and fast for a light, nutty base layer that's a pastry chef's secret weapon.

Basic biscuit baking mix is a homemade Bisquick-style staple with flour, baking powder, dry milk, salt, and shortening. Makes 90 biscuits over 6 weeks of pantry storage. Just add water.

Two-ingredient beer muffins with biscuit baking mix and a cup of beer. The fastest, laziest from-scratch [muffin](/recipes/muffins) recipe ever, ready in 30 minutes.

Honey lemon balm tea biscuits drop-bake a buttery honey-sweetened batter with fresh chopped lemon balm leaves for fragrant, tender afternoon-tea cookies. A garden-herb biscuit.

Buttery Southern biscuit muffins with a thick golden crust and cakelike center. Just six ingredients, hand-mixed, and baked until golden. The easiest biscuit you'll ever make.

Annie Mae Jones' sweet potato biscuits: Southern-style biscuits with mashed sweet potato folded into a buttery shortening dough, cut into squares and baked golden. Eat warm with butter.

Fluffy homemade tea biscuits from five pantry staples: flour, baking powder, and shortening cut into a tender dough. Tall, light biscuits ready for butter and jam.

Country buttermilk biscuits baked tall and golden in a hot oven, with cold butter cut into the flour for flaky layers and tangy buttermilk for tender lift. The flaky biscuit grandma made.

A no-bake chocolate biscuit pudding, milk-soaked biscuits layered with a rich cocoa butter cream and studded with cashews and raisins, then chilled until sliceable. A Sri Lankan party favorite.